Is there a way to control scope of fontspec font change?

Question

I would like to limit the scope of \fontspec to just one or a couple of words in my paragraph, for example:

Vivamus gravida lacus a sapien \fontspec{The Font Name}{interdum} eget 
interdum mi sodales. Aenean nisi nunc, feugiat a auctor sed, consectetur
ut elit. In id tellus ac lectus ullamcorper tempor

If I just want to change the font of the word interdum, what would be the correct way to do it?

(I'm using XeLaTeX under Mac OS X 10.7.2)

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score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '11 at 10:24

Use braces to create a group:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}

Vivamus gravida lacus a sapien {\fontspec{Arial}interdum} eget
interdum mi sodales. Aenean nisi nunc, feugiat a auctor sed, consectetur
ut elit. In id tellus ac lectus ullamcorper tempor
\end{document}

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '11 at 11:15

As an addition to Ulrike’s answer:

You could specify a new font family with \newfontfamily and then make a matching \text… command:

\newfontfamily\arial[⟨font features⟩]{Arial}
\newcommand*{\textal}[1]{{\arial #1}}

and use it like this

Vivamus gravida lacus a sapien \textal{interdum} eget
interdum mi sodales. Aenean nisi nunc, feugiat a auctor sed, consectetur
ut elit. In id tellus ac lectus ullamcorper tempor

_{fontspec manual section 6, p. 8.}

Is there a way to control scope of fontspec font change?

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